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  1. fmhill

    Shotgun Mic with Roland

    The Sennheiser ME66/K6 is an excellent shotgun microphone to use with this recorder. Yes, you will need a cable made to interface with the XLR plug on the K6 module with a mini-stereo plug on the other end and wired for putting the sound signal in both the tip and ring of the mini-stereo (TRS)...
  2. fmhill

    Quality Parabolic Mic

    Here is a link to the microphone arrays that I use: http://www.4shared.com/folder/F1FPcina/Microphone_tests.html Its not as expensive as you might expect. Moist of the microphones I have were purchased on E-bay. The two R0DE NTG-3 I purchased new from a retailer before I discovered that E-bay...
  3. fmhill

    Quality Parabolic Mic

    Hi Peter, Size for crow sounds? American Crows make a very complex sound loaded with harmonics and the base (prime?) is about 500 hz based on spectrogram I have made of recordings made using a ME66/K6 microphone and a LS-11 recorder... As to what size parabola would be optimum, I would refer...
  4. fmhill

    Quality Parabolic Mic

    Joe, Can't help you with parabolic mics, don't like them but not hard to make iof you can find the parabolic shaped reflector... I built one once but didn't like the frequency response, to high for the American Crow anyhow, you need something that picks up low frequencies around 500 hz with...
  5. fmhill

    Olympus Ls12 - advice needed

    Yes, when in the field I use the mike with a hand grip with a shockmount on it and the Sennheiser foam windjammer on the ME66. There are better wind jammers made however I prefer the Sennheiser foam one when hand holding the mic in the field for portable operations. Mostly I use mine for bird &...
  6. fmhill

    Olympus Ls12 - advice needed

    I use K6-ME66 with a Olympus LS-11 and can confirm it is a great combination you'll have a hard time finding better... Hosa Technology makes a cable to plug the ME/K6 series microphones into the TRS jack on the LS recorders... I have not seen a LS-12 but from what I have heard, it is basically...
  7. fmhill

    Setup for newbie

    I know nothing about the Olympus LS-12 however if it has an external microphone jack and the option to turn off the PIP (plug in power) as does the LS-11, any of the Sennheiser ME/K6 series microphones should work with the LS-12... The advantage of the ME/K6 series microphones is they have a...
  8. fmhill

    Setup for newbie

    I have two field portable recording setups, first and most portable is a Olympus LS11 with a Sennheiser ME-66/K6 (or ME-67/K6 depending on how much "reach" and selectivity I want). The ME-66/K6 is my favorite microphone. My second recording system is a Marantz PMD661 used more in fixed...
  9. fmhill

    Acceptable scientific animal recording equipment

    Howdy Carl, I do a fair amount of field recording and my favorite gear is the Olympus LS-11 with either a ME67/K6 or a ME66/K6 on a hand grip. The ME66/K6 is probably the best all around microphone for frog recording, I find the ME67/K6 is a bit too cumbersome for its additional length and...
  10. fmhill

    any good external microphone which can be used with a camcorder?

    Both the Sennheiser ME66 and the MKE400 will work as they have self contained batteries for power, the ME66 is the better of the two by a landslide. You don't mention it so I assume you know the ME66 requires a K6 power module as part of the microphone. Be sure to get the K6 with internal...
  11. fmhill

    Sound recording in the night

    I've said it before and I'll say it again... The Marantz PMD661 recorder wins hands down for lengthy recording sessions that last all night. I have both a PMD661 and an Olympus LS-11 and take my word for it, the PMD661 has a far superior operating system and functions for night time recording...
  12. fmhill

    Telinga Set Up-Best Options

    I can not help you with Telinga compatibility as I use gun mics and Jonas covers the compatibility issue nicely in his reply above. What I would suggest is that Jonas makes a very good point about the Olympus LS-11 recorder. I have both the Marantz PMD661 recorder and the Olympus LS-11...
  13. fmhill

    Sound recording in the night

    I do basically the same type of recording that you describe, long hours during the night, and after trying a number of different make/model recorders, I have settled on the Marantz PMD-661 for its operating features including a built in start/stop timer, 2 second prerecord, and "Pause on Quiet"...
  14. fmhill

    Microphone for camcorder

    Hi Peter, The key word here is "Head", that is only half the microphone, it is missing the K6 power/preamplifier module and will not be useable by itself. Another caution I should mention is about the K6 Power module, it is manufactured in several variations, and the one you want is the basic...
  15. fmhill

    Microphone for camcorder

    Hi Peter, Take a look at this microphone: http://www.adorama.com/SEME66K6.html This is about as good as you will need for use with a camcorder for wildlife sound recording. I use a pair of these Sennheiser ME66/K6 very successfully for stereo recordings, and they are easily adapted to most any...
  16. fmhill

    help needed with sonagram editing

  17. fmhill

    Newbie Questions

    Audacity is a complex editor, there are many settings that control how it displays data (sound) so I don't think there is a simple answer to this question. Audacity also varies in its configuration depending on version and computer operating system you are using which further complicates on the...
  18. fmhill

    Newbie Questions

    I have the ME66/K6 and the ME67/K6 and the R0DE NTG3, and I prefer the ME66/K6 over the NTG-3... The ME67/K6 is slightly more directional and can be a bit trickier to use because of its pattern as compared to the other two. I would say the ME66/K6 is the most popular of these three from all the...
  19. fmhill

    Newbie Questions

    Answer to second question first: Many of the recorders have a menu option that allows you to switch to mono mode on the left channel putting the output of a single microphone into both channels so you hear it in both ears when using headphones and during playback. I got rid of my H4n a year...
  20. fmhill

    Olympus LS-11 settings

    I use MP3 at a fast sampling rate mostly as I find the sound quality to be very good without having to deal with large cumbersome files. If I want the best quality, I will use PCM WAV at either 44 Khz or 48Khz however PCM WAV generates large files to download and handle. Mostly I'm looking for...
  21. fmhill

    Help regarding Bird sound recording equipments

    Again, I would recommend that you go to the Naturerecordists group on Yahoo to ask this question as its where you will get the most accurate and informative answer. If it were me planing to do what you describe, I would use the Sound Devices 722 recorder...
  22. fmhill

    Help regarding Bird sound recording equipments

    Greetings Prathamesh, As Harry pointed out, your request for information is extremely vague... You would do better to ask specific questions about technique and gear... I would also suggest a much better source for the type of information you are looking for would be found...
  23. fmhill

    Advice on recording equipment

    Yes, the LS-11 does all you are asking... The only caveat is the audio output level from the small internal speakers of the LS-11 is very low, you will need some type of amplified speaker to make the LS-11 usable for anything more than checking your recording and even for that I recommend...
  24. fmhill

    Zoom H4n and kit

    Hi Kevin, My sentiments exactly... My arthritic old hands do not work well with micro-SD cards at all... Two years ago I purchased a cellphone with a built in camera, it uses the micro-SD card, and after playing with the camera briefly, I gave up on it due to the micro-SD card... Biggest...
  25. fmhill

    Zoom H4n and kit

    Hi Jim, The Hosa YXM121 Y-cable sounds like it will work for what you want, I'm not fully sure as I've never used that particular cable myself... However, if what you want is to get the audio signal from a mono mic into both channels of the H4n, as I recall, the H4n has an internal menu...
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